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AmigaOS Manual: Workbench Preferences
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This chapter explains the Preferences editors found in the Prefs drawer. These editors allow you to customize your Amiga environment by:
- Choosing a keyboard type
- Setting your preferred language
- Changing the Workbench screen display
- Changing the Workbench colors
- Changing the shape of the pointer
- Specifying a printer and setting it up for output
- Setting up a modem for use with the Amiga
- Setting the time and date
This chapter contains the following Preferences editor information:
- Contents of the Prefs drawer
- Editor menus
- Presets drawer
- Descriptions of each Preferences editor
Prefs Drawer
The Prefs drawer contains the icons for the Preferences editors and the Preset drawer. Figure 5-1 illustrates the Preferences editors window.
Preferences Window
The following editors are listed in the order in which they are described in this chapter:
| Font | For changing the fonts used in the different areas of the screen. |
| IControl | For choosing miscellaneous system options, such as the key used for screen drag. |
| Input | For changing the mouse speeds, key repeat speeds, and selecting keyboard type. |
| Locale | For selecting the language and locality. |
| Overscan | For adjusting the size of the display area for text and for graphics. |
| Palette | For changing the Workbench colors. |
| Pointer | For changing the size, shape, and color of the mouse pointer and busy pointer. |
| Printer | For specifying the printer driver that matches your printer and for specifying options, such as paper size and margin width. |
| PrinterGfx | For setting up your printer to print graphics. |
| PrinterPS | For controlling output to a PostScript printer. |
| ScreenMode | For choosing a different monitor display mode. |
| Serial | For setting the specifications for the serial port, which is used to communicate through modems or networking systems. |
| Sound | For determining the sound your Amiga produces for its display beep. |
| Time | For setting the time and date. |
| WBPattern | For selecting or creating background patterns for the Workbench windows and screen. |
| Presets | For storing different Preferences editor configurations changed through the Project menu. |
